| Computer Code: |
CYT |
Preferred Map Code: |
notEntered |
| Status Code: |
Index Level |
| Age range: |
Caradoc Series (O4)
— Caradoc Series (O4) |
| Lithological Description: |
[Obsolete: use WNY] Thin to thick-bedded andesitic tuffs. |
| Definition of Lower Boundary: |
Base defined by incoming of bedded tuffs. |
| Definition of Upper Boundary: |
Top defined by overlying formation (rhyodacitic lapilli tuffs). |
| Thickness: |
200 metres, thins and wedges out to west-south-west. (West of Holehouse Gill). |
| Geographical Limits: |
Not defined. |
| Parent Unit: |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Previous Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
|
| Alternative Name(s): |
none recorded or not applicable
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| Stratotypes: |
| Type Area |
Unnamed locality as SD 195 962, 1200m northnortheast of Crosbythwaite Farm. Sheet 38 (Ambleside), Ordnance Survey Sheet 96, (South Lakeland). |
| Reference(s): |
| none recorded or not applicable |
| 1:50K maps on which the lithostratigraphical unit is found, and map code used: |
| none recorded or not applicable |
